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Auction 131, Lot 156

"Partie Orientale du Canada, avec la Nouvelle Angleterre, l'Acadie, et la Terre-Neuve", D'Anville/Santini

Subject: Colonial New England & Canada

Period: 1776 (dated)

Publication: Atlas Universel

Color: Hand Color

Size:
22.7 x 19.1 inches
57.7 x 48.5 cm
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This large, attractive map covers New England, the St. Laurence River, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. It presents good detail of the boundaries, towns and cities, harbors, bays, rivers and lakes, Indian tribal territory, fishing grounds and place names. Though crediting D'Anville, the map is also partially based on the cartography of Bellin and Robert de Vaugondy. The large cartouche, featuring a ferocious-looking beaver, is copied from Robert de Vaugondy's 1755 map of Canada and the Great Lakes.

References: Kershaw #714; McCorkle #776.4; Sellers & Van Ee #138.

Condition: B+

The coloring in the seas is a bit uneven with slight bleed through on verso. There are a couple small holes and a tear in the blank margins, not near the map.

Estimate: $750 - $900

Sold for: $550

Closed on 3/17/2010

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